Responsibilities
- Draft, review and negotiate a variety of agreements including but not limited to commercial transactions, SAs, DPAs, NDAs, and other commercial matters with domestic and international parties including clients, partners, and vendors
- Assist in management and maintenance of company’s standard contract templates and playbooks that streamline the contracting process, reduce friction with customer, while mitigating risk for the company
- Ensure compliance with security and privacy regulations and standards, securities regulations, corporate governance requirements and other relevant legal and statutory requirements
- Proactively address evolving regulatory and governance compliance environment, including changes in laws, regulations, regulatory focus areas and industry best practices
- Provide oversight and leadership for all legal needs of the business, advising across business function
Requirements
- A lawyer who is committed and embodies our core values and mission; demonstrates them each day (Trust is our Ethos!)
- Ability to identify and manage risk and to provide practical, results-oriented legal advice that helps the company achieve its business objectives
- A pragmatic execution-oriented transactional lawyer who can promptly solve day-to-day commercial contracting issues and highlight any key or novel risks that arise.
- Clear communicator who can simplify, organize, and deliver information and advise in a way others can understand and act upon
- Strategic thinking with exceptional organizational skills and desire to create and grow the Company’s legal function
- Client focused and sensible approach to handling complex legal issues
- Self-Starter who is ready to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
- Excellent negotiating skills, keen analytical abilities, a pragmatic approach to problem solving, as well as a track record of success in handling complex business and legal issues in a fast-paced, agile and evolving technology-driven business environment
- 5+ years of experience (in house or law firm), 3+ years of relevant SaaS commercial experience
- Proven success working effectively across business units and internal functions to efficiently resolve complex business and risk management issues while considering many non-legal variables, such as culture, brand, communications, government relations, tax, revenue recognition, insurance, finance and other functional areas.
- Experience negotiating B2B SaaS, specifically in software security and compliance
- Experience working in a start-up atmosphere is highly desirable
- Prior Experience building out and leading in-house legal teams that are committed to strategic differentiation and high quality execution
- Proficient with G-Suite (Gmail, Google Docs, etc), DocuSign, Slack
- Working knowledge of scalable a contract database solution, and general working knowledge of finance invoicing systems, and project management software
- High technical proficiency and critical thinking skills to ensure we're thoughtfully challenging ourselves in the design of our internal systems
Nice to Have
- Product counseling, privacy, and cybersecurity experience or interest is a plus
Benefits
- Stock equity
- Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, employees and their dependents
- Pension plan under which you contribute 5% of your basic earnings, and your employer contributes an additional 4%
- Paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment
- Access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process
- Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development
- Access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities
- Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — East Coast, UK
Team
Team size: 600+
Additional Information
- This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
